Sigrid Sterckx

Sigrid Sterckx is Senior Full Professor of Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University. She is a founding member of the Bioethics Institute Ghent and a member of the End-of-Life-Care Research Group of Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She lectures courses in theoretical and applied ethics as well as social and political philosophy. Her current research projects focus on: Big Data, AI and medicine; medical end-of-life practices; and the use of patents as a tool to regulate technologies in biomedicine. Sigrid has published widely on these issues, including the co-edited volume Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good (Cambridge University Press). She is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and its Standing Committee on Digital Medicine.